From civil to political religion [[electronic resource] ] : the intersection of culture, religion and politics / / Marcela Cristi
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| Autore: |
Cristi Marcela <1940->
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| Titolo: |
From civil to political religion [[electronic resource] ] : the intersection of culture, religion and politics / / Marcela Cristi
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| Pubblicazione: | Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2001 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (300 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 322/.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Civil religion |
| Religion | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Table of Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1 Theoretical Foundations; Chapter 2 American Civil Religion and the American Debate; Chapter 3 The "Problem" of Legitimacy, Power, and Politics; Chapter 4 State-Directed Civil Religions in Comparative Perspective; Chapter 5 Chile, 1973-1989: A Case Study; Chapter 6 Civil Religion and the Spirit of Nationalism; Conclusion: Durkheim versus Rousseau Revisited; Notes; References; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Prompted by the shattering of the bonds between religion and the political order brought about by the Enlightenment, Jean-Jacques Rousseau devised a ""new"" religion (civil religion) to be used by the state as a way of enforcing civic unity. Emile Durkheim, by contrast, conceived civil religion to be a spontaneous phenomenon arising from society itself - a non-coercive force expressing the self-identify or self-definition of a people. In 1967, the American sociologist Robert Bellah rediscovered the concept and applied it to American society in its Durkheimian form. Ever since Bell |
| Titolo autorizzato: | From civil to political religion |
| ISBN: | 1-280-92539-6 |
| 9786610925391 | |
| 0-88920-938-3 | |
| 0-585-45685-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910456242103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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